Brit hostage John Cantlie jokes about failed rescue attempts in new IS video

Brit hostage John Cantlie jokes about failed rescue attempts in new IS video

HOSTAGE: John Cantlie in the latest IS propaganda video, in which he claims life in Mosul is 'business as usual' [PA]

The journalist - who has been held for more than two years by the barbaric terror network - gives a tour of the IS-controlled city of Mosul in Iraq in the propaganda film.

He visits a market, hospital and police station and claims suggestions people are 'depressed' and 'living in fear' under the terror network's strict sharia law are 'misleading'.

At one point planes are heard overheard and Mr Cantlie, 43, sarcastically shouts at them: "Here! Down here! Over here!

“Useless! Absolutely useless!”

John Cantlie

"You've come to rescue me again?

"Do something!

"Useless! Absolutely useless!"

Last night Foreign Office officials were studying the video – the eighth IS has made featuring Mr Cantlie.

Previously he has delivered his message under duress from behind a desk and wearing an orange Guantanamo-Bay-style jumpsuit.

In his last video two months ago he gave an account of what he claimed was a failed rescue attempt by US forces in July.

He said he had accepted 'long ago' his fate was 'overwhelmingly likely' to be the same as other UK captives Alan Henning, 47, and David Haines, 44, who were beheaded by IS's Brit-born executioner Jihadi John.

Shiraz Maher, senior fellow at the Institute Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King's College London, wrote on Twitter: "Of all the Cantlie videos, this one is definitely the strangest.

"The healthier appearance and civilian clothing are very peculiar."

In the eight-minute documentary-style video posted on YouTube Mr Cantlie is seen driving a car and riding a police motorbike around Mosul which was captured in June when IS fighters murdered 2,000 soldiers.